Here at Uplift Fair Trade, we are constantly talking about how we run our business and in everything we do how we make fairness at the top of our priority. In order to grow a small business, there is a limitation on crisis-management tools, it is increasingly evident that we need the government and private sectors to join together. There are no accurate answers to it, just countless "unknowns" at this stage. Supply chains, eruptive markets, and the impact of travel bans and social distancing will make collaboration easy. However, it will be farfetched to keep everyone happy.
Mother's day is a special day to celebrate Mothers around the world. Today Uplift Fair Trade celebrates Shanthi. A Mother, a leader and a womenpreneur who has fought odds in her society/community to empower women.
Through all the hardships Sarita has gone through as part of a community and the global hardship we are all currently facing through coronavirus, Sarita keeps on smiling as the benefits of Fair Trade shine light for her future.
Fair Trade Ethical Mother's Day gifts that Mum will love that support Mothers in India and Nepal working to create sustainable livelihoods to empower those who may be affected by a disability and their families.
This is an amazing story focused on Fair Trade Organisation MESH and how this group supports artisans in India to continue working and creating sustainable livelihoods. This article is based on Fair Trade advocate Jacky Bonney, her role in MESH and how MESH aims to support their projects/groups during the Coronavirus.
A moving story/case study that informs us how our Artisans from India have been affected by the Coronavirus (Covid-19). This article reveals the benefits of Fair Trade and the importance of supporting artisans in disadvantaged countries. In this story, you'll learn more about Sjad Ali from Care Kashmir in India.
Firstly - we want to acknowledge this is a global pandemic and while we as a business will suffer, we are very aware of how this will affect everyone. This Includes our wonderful partners and Artisans. In times like these, we recognise that it is the most vulnerable people in society that face the greatest impact.
Blue Mango is a self-sufficient business, making beautiful products that range from Kaftan tops and dresses to the cutest kids toys. The producer group follows the ten Fair Trade Principles to ensure each employee is treated right. Blue Mango is an empowering environment for the women who work there. Run by women for women, Blue Mango priorities employing women that are widowed, living with AIDs/HIV, have been or are experiencing domestic abuse or have been outcast or deserted for other reasons such as disability.
We are a family-run Fair Trade business based in the Blue Mountains Australia, and we are struggling more than ever. Our passion is to ethically trade, to give artisans living with a disability an opportunity for a sustainable livelihood. Our hearts are breaking for our country and all that we, as a community, have lost as a result of the unprecedented bushfires and drought. Many people have sadly lost their homes, livelihoods and loved ones. Our environment has suffered a catastrophic loss of vegetation, trees, wildlife, insects, and bugs. Our local region; the Blue Mountains have witnessed and been involved in the disastrous fires surrounding and engulfing properties and communities.
Prowess exists to help exploited women to find empowerment through their sewing skills, enabling their children to attend school and even university. Some of these women come from homes too poor to have a dowry provided for them so are in danger of being married off to older, abusive men who have no respect for them.
